Magic is a powerful art that can support a weak performer.

Theft annoys me more than anything else. The purloining of effects from another magician. Some people think it's massive to steal the secrets of nuclear reactors, but to steal a card move is trivial. They're wrong.

I started doing radio pieces with no clear, preconceived idea, except that I have a tendency to be theatrical.

I always read what I write out loud, and I did that long before any radio thing. My editor finds that unusual.

I suppose that if I could only do one thing, a solid card effect would be pretty high on the list. That's the root of it all, sleight-of-hand. It's certainly the thing I feel most comfortable with.

In the winters, I enrolled in the hotel management program at Cornell University. I naively thought that I knew something about sleight-of-hand, entertainment and food, and that would be all I needed.

Magic is a powerful art that can support a weak performer.